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Monday, July 20, 2009

07/20/09 The Raw Mount Vernon News Feed

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  • NY man in court for Harvard shooting
    posted on July 20, 2009 07:14:28 am
    ... girlfriend did. Authorities found marijuana and $1,000 in cash near Cosby. Nineteen-year-old Blayn Jiggetts, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has also been charged. A third suspect remains at large. Copney is a songwriter whose compositions have been recorded ...
  • Police: Staples employee stabbed co-worker in head with scissors
    posted on July 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - An employee of the Staples at 275 East Sanford Blvd. was stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors yesterday during an argument with another employee.
  • City adds take-home cars amid tax hikes
    posted on July 19, 2009 03:08:10 pm
    ... In all, one in 26 of the city's 1,000 workers gets a take-home car, more than in New Rochelle (one in 66) and Mount Vernon (one in 33), but less than in Yonkers (one in 11), according to officials in those cities. Yonkers has cut its take-home fleet ...
  • Mount Vernon has the power to stop the violence
    posted on July 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    Re 'Stop the Violence event in Mount Vernon,' : Mount Vernon residents gathered at Memorial Field to show support against the violence in Mount Vernon.
  • Mt. Vernon Driveway Robbery
    posted on July 18, 2009 07:18:02 pm
    Mt. Vernon police are investigating a robbery in a driveway. It happened on Sheridan Avenue.A There are reports that three men came up on the victim in the driveway and one of them had a gun.
  • Yonkers police look for ways to stem recent wave of shootings
    posted on July 18, 2009 03:06:53 pm
    ... up enforcement of quality-of-life violations at city hot spots to put pressure on gang members and has enlisted Mount Vernon police, as well as state and federal authorities, in the effort. "It seems to have heated up the last few weeks," the ...
  • HUD grants announced for Westchester
    posted on July 09, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... Shelter. The City of Yonkers will receive $1 million in Community Development Block Grant funds. The City of Mount Vernon will receive $2.6 million; $1.8 million will be in the form of a CDBG grant and $783,000 will be in the HOME program. The funds ...
  • Westchester Scholars Help Others In Community
    posted on July 18, 2009 02:20:15 pm
    ... The following students are participating: Joseline Rodriguez, Peekskill; Tiara Worrell, Yonkers; Turone Bason, Mount Vernon; Marquitah Snowball, New Rochelle; Tiffany Brunson, Yonkers; Kathy McVay, Yonkers; Mastanna Eraifej, Yonkers; Dominique Ames, ...
  • Ground Broken on First Hudson Valley Stimulus Project
    posted on July 18, 2009 08:42:35 am
    ... place, the existing bridge will be demolished. The construction contract was awarded to PCI Industries Corp. of Mount Vernon, Westchester County. The project is expected to be completed in December. New York State Department of Transportation Acting ...
  • State Democrats get lion's share of pork
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... list details spending for more than 3,800 community projects, such as $100,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, and $75,000 for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. But Senate Republicans, who largely represent ...
  • Mount Vernon teen wounded in latest Yonkers shooting
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    YONKERS - City police say a Mount Vernon teenager who was shot Wednesday afternoon on Nodine Hill may have been another victim of a rash of gang-related shootings in the west and southwest sections of the city in the past two weeks.
  • New Rochelle: Small fraction of students found to be nonresidents
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... reported the figures after residents pressed for them at recent meetings, spurred by a report in April that a Mount Vernon probe had found close to 800 students violating residency requirements. Assistant Superintendent John B. Quinn said the ...
  • Region's jobless rate hits 7.5%
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... get worse before they get better.' The jobless numbers were far worse in individual communities in the region. Mount Vernon and Yonkers posted unemployment of 9.5 percent and 9 percent, respectively. In Rockland, Spring Valley had a jobless rate of ...
  • To the majority goes the pork
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... list details spending for more than 3,800 community projects, such as $100,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, and $75,000 for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Sen. Thomas Libous, R-Binghamton, who brought back ...
  • Ex-Mount Vernon superintendent named principal of Greenburgh's Woodlands H.S.
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    ... in local education circles. He began his teaching career in 1968. He became the first black superintendent in Mount Vernon, a position held four years before leaving in 2002. He was praised for revamping the administration and boosting test scores. ...
  • 4 Mount Vernon residents accused of assault
    posted on July 17, 2009 03:00:00 pm
    MOUNT VERNON - Two men and two teens are accused of pummeling a 53-year-old city man, police said.
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    posted on July 17, 2009 03:31:17 pm
    ... get worse before they get better." The jobless numbers were far worse in individual communities in the region. Mount Vernon and Yonkers posted unemployment of 9.5 percent and 9 percent, respectively. In Rockland, Spring Valley had a jobless rate of ...
  • Pharmacies Join Effort To Stop Prescription Drub Abuse
    posted on July 17, 2009 02:08:18 pm
    ... to a letter from Spano to participate. The following are among the participants: Gramatan Pharmacy (Circle RX), Mount Vernon; Cross Pharmacy, Cross River; CVS Pharmacy, Pelham; Rite Aid, Peekskill; Baxter's Pharmacy, Peekskill; Bedford Rexall ...
  • Article Comments
    posted on July 17, 2009 11:10:24 am
    ... list details spending on more than 3,800 community projects, such as $100,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Mount Vernon, Westchester County, and $75,000 for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. But Senate Republicans, who largely represent ...
  • Mount Vernon 16-year-old shot in Yonkers; 7th recent shooting victim
    posted on July 16, 2009 11:17:56 pm
    A 16-year-old Mount Vernon boy was admitted to a Yonkers hospital yesterday afternoon after he was shot in the lower left leg in the Nodine Hill section, police said this morning.
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